Fraggle
Rock Sweatshirt (1982)

This sweatshirt
features an early drawing of Gobo Fraggle by Michael Frith. This shirt
was a gift to the cast and crew that worked on the Fraggle Rock series.
It's not certain which year it was printed but the copyright says 1982,
so it's possible this was made when the show first began taping.

Fraggle
Rock Writer's Bible (1986)

Marvel
Productions in association with Henson Associate produced this very rare
item for the Fraggle Rock collector. It is an original copy of what was
termed the "Fraggle Rock Writer's Bible" which was issued to
the writers that worked on the animated Fraggle Rock series.

This
"Bible" was bound with a simple school essay type of folder
with a clear acetate cover. There were most likely more than one of these
put together.

It
explained everything one needed to know in order to function in the Fraggle
Rock universe. It contains character biographies, landscape descriptions
and the relationships between that universe's inhabitants therein. Almost
every reoccurring character from the HBO series is included in these pages;
from Gobo Fraggle to Mokey's Night-Blooming Deathwort, Lanford and the
Ditzies. The Bible states that they will recommend which episodes of the
original series the writers should watch to research the necessary characters
a story may require. Curiously, the illustrations used in this book appear
to be the early and unrevised Michael Frith designs when the original
series was being created.

This
book also gives the intention of the cartoon series. It has an added stapled
together section with a few do's and do not's attached. Another bit of
curiosity is that the final note on the addendum states that the characters
of Doc and Sprocket would not appear in the cartoon series. Obviously
this idea was changed.

This
copy was purchased from the eBay auction site for over $120.00. It is
not known who owned this particular copy or who took a fluorescent yellow
highlighter to it, but it is fun to imagine (and entirely possible) that
it was once held in the hands of Jim Henson himself.

Fraggle
Paper Weight (1986)

This
beautiful paper weight was a gift from Jim Henson to the cast and crew
of Fraggle Rock when the show completed taping it's last season.

On
the front is the signature Fraggle Rock logo with Sprocket underneath.
The back reads "Thanks from the heart of Fraggle Rock. Jim, 1983-1986".

McDonald's
Television Commercial Storyboards (1987)

These
are the original storyboard drawings used for the production of the TV
commercial for the Fraggle Rock Happy Meals.

They were
drawn by McDonald's artist in residence Rich Seidelman who does much of
their artwork. They are drawn on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper in black marker.
There were only eleven storyboards needed for this commercial. They were
done in a rather simple quick fashion just getting the gist of what each
Fraggle character looks like captured. Each one shows the intended dialogue
captioned underneath the picture. These are truly one of a kind!

McDonald's
Happy Meal Doozer Box (1987)

Here
is the as rare as you can get Doozer Happy Meal box. It was on eBay in
1999.

Wembley
Fraggle is on the front of the box eating a Doozer construction and there
are lots of games featuring many Doozers including Cotterpin.

This
box is one of only two known to exist. It is just a prototype for the
test Fraggle Rock Doozer toys. It sold for
well over $600.

Fraggle
Rock Animated Series Storyboards (1987)

Another
rare and awesome find for the Fraggle Rock collector is this set of Marvel
Productions storyboards from the cartoon episode of Fraggle Rock titled:
"Laundry Never Lies".

The storyboards
consist of 51 pages and 139 illustrations for just one 15 minute episode
(not counting commercials). The pages themselves are approximately 8 1/2
by 14 inches long. They were reproduced on a copy machine and were probably
reduced in size as well.

The illustrations,
drawn by Jim Shull, are a bit on the crude side but exact details for
this sort of thing usually are not necessary. The panels are captioned
with the dialogue for that scene. They also describe actions and camera
angles. Some are blank to represent fade outs and possibly spaces for
the commercials.

This particular
episode is the one where Boober claims he can tell anything he wants about
a Fraggle just by looking at their laundry. They find Red Fraggle's sweater
and conclude that she was killed by something that's called a poison cackler
but doesn't look like one. Wembley has an obnoxious catch phrase in the
episode where he exclaims "That's Amazing! Amazing!". He says
it several times.

The only
thing that could make this item more intriguing would be if it were storyboards
from the HBO series!

Original
Fraggle Rock Lunchbox Art (1987)

This is a
truly one of a kind Fraggle Rock find. It is the original artwork used
for the plastic Fraggle Rock lunch box produced by Thermos to be released
in conjunction with the animated series painted by artist was Victor A.
Alongi.

This
piece includes the original painting with a clear overlay covering it,
a mat frame, a tracing paper overlay with needed corrections and a letter
from Henson Associates explaining the corrections that were needed.

The letter
from Henson Associates compliments the artist's work and makes suggestions
to better portray the character's likeness' in the picture. They suggest
to fix Gobo's eyelids and to make sure all of the Fraggles' pupils are
the same size. They also mention corrections to the Doozers' helmets and
construction vehicles to make them more accurate. They also let the artist
know that they touched up the artwork for the thermos and added the little
cave creature pet next to the Doozer (on the thermos). The letter is signed
by Jim Mahon.

The tracing
paper overlay has the characters traced in blue pencil with the needed
corrections made along with a few written notes. On the final piece, you
can see where the artist made the corrections around their eyes. This
is a nice illustration but not the best. Mokey's pupils are too small
and look like she got a whiff of the Trash Heap's Love Potion # 9. There
is also something odd about the way Wembley's mouth connects to his face.
He need more of a neck or something. His legs are pretty long also. It
appears to have been painted in watercolor and perhaps gauche as well.
It is signed by the artist and has had registration marks added as well.
The top cover for the entire piece has a bit of information about the
advertising company:

Something
this rare could have only come from that wonderful on-line auction site
eBay. It sold for over $300.00.

McDonald's
Crew Fraggle Rock Apparel (1988)

To
promote the new Fraggle Rock Saturday morning cartoon, McDonald's had
their Fraggle Rock based Happy Meals. Not only were there boxes and toys
and advertising displays featuring the Fraggles, but the actual McDonald's
crew had certain uniform related items.

Of of the
clothing items seemed to have the same images of the Fraggle Rock logo
along with a picture of Gobo and Red with two Doozers at their sides.
One Doozer appears to actually be Cotterpin. Gobo's sleeves are also colored
in instead of striped. This logo appeared on the crew hats, and aprons
and possibly T-shirts. An odd item though would be the tote bag issued
to McDonald's workers. It's conceivable that this was given to upper management
staff.

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